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Devil(Hardback)
a Mask Without a Face
Reaktion Books
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23/05/1995
Examining who he is, and particularly how and why he looks the way he does as a response to changing political and social conditions, this book discusses what the Devil has looked like in painting a...
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Maps and Politics Pb(Paperback)
Reaktion Books
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01/09/2000
Are the power and purpose of maps inherently political? This title addresses this important question and seeks to emphasize that the apparent objectivity' of the map-making and map-using process can...
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Picturing Tropical Nature(Hardback)
Reaktion Books
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24/02/2001
In this work, Nancy Stepan explores the ways in which the Tropics, in particular tropical nature, places, animals and people, were imagined and presented in European culture from the 19th century on...
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Landscape and Englishness Pb(Paperback)
Reaktion Books
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05/03/2001
Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. This title argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates o...
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Thief, the Cross and the Wheel(Paperback)
Reaktion Books
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05/03/2001
When spectators in the Middle Ages examined images of Christ's crucifixion on Mount Calvary, did they ever consider them as representations of capital punishment? This book traces out the extraordin...
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Lives of Images(Hardback)
Reaktion Books
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18/11/2001
In this work, the author examines the history of European representations of non-European peoples, using as his base four case studies and a wide range of source material, including paintings, medal...
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Picturing Tropical Nature(Paperback)
Reaktion Books
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26/09/2002
In this work, Nancy Stepan explores the ways in which the Tropics, in particular tropical nature, places, animals and people, were imagined and presented in European culture from the 19th century on...
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Reading Icontexts(Paperback)
from Swift to the French Revolution
Reaktion Books
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17/07/1995
Dealing with the reading and interpretation of "iconotexts" - combinations of texts and images - this book attempts to break down the barriers between art and literature. Focusing mainly on graphic ...
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Men In Black(Electronic book text)
Reaktion Books
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01/02/2012
Men's clothes went black in the nineteenth century: Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in this age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. F...
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